Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 80, No. 268, Ed. 2 Monday, December 29, 1969 Page: 1 of 21
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State Is Caught in Grip
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Of Bitter Winter Storm
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City Snowed In, More Falling
Drive-in bank at NW 22 and Grand Blvd.
In
Girl Says
She Lied
ft
Reno, west of May, was real traffic stopper
About Rape
were
Workers
Just Take
A Holiday
i
Heat, Water, Lights Out
Ada Paralyzed by Ice
t
snap-
all
MANILA (AP) — Anti- new, asked later if he was
HOURLY TIMPRRATURI
s
(See ACTION UNH-Sm* 2)
when
it up
in
in
homes
lights
ice
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City street crews and
motorists fought a losing
battle with snow today and
it is likely to get worse be-
fore it gets better.
The weather bureau
forecast a continuation of
light snow through today
with heavier snow tonight
and a 50-50 chance of four
or more inches of new
snow Tuesday on top of the
three inches which had ac-
cumulated by this morn-
ing.
in towns where main pow-
er supplies were cut off as
the lines snapped.
Bowlegs, Devol, Little
River, Sasakwa and Wal-
ters were among towns ex-
periencing the longest out-
Suburban living had Its drawbacks today. About 100 cars were stacked up
on the Broadway Extension from Britton Rd. to NW 23. (Times Staff Photo by
Jim Argo)
snapped power and com-
munications lines and
caused tree limbs to crash
down under their winter
burden.
Thousands of residents
were without lights or heat
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■
The vote, announced aft-
er a two-hour closed meet-
ing of the regents, was
10-4.
cities and created hazard-
ous driving conditions
which brought perils for
motorists.
Ice accumulations, par-
ticularly in the east cen-
tral section of the state.
A 17-year-old girl whose
testimony 20 months ago
put a minister and oilfield
worker in prison for 99
years testified today her
earlier statement was a
Me.
The girl said today she
lied when she said John
Severs raped her on Nov.
25, 1966, when she was 14.
The girl was the princi-
pal witness in the trial on
a first degree rape charge.
I am a widow with a son, and I don’t receive a* big
a welfare check as some of those here who also receive
but streets and highways
still were hazardous.
The city’s snow ordi-
nance, banning parking on
streets in the downtown
area, went into effect at 3
a.m., Jim Robinson, city
traffic control director
said.
The ordinance can be
put into effect when snow
depth reaches three inch-
es. Parking was being
banned in an area bounded
By Kay Dyer
Most Oklahoma City res-
idents who were trying to
dig their way out of the
snow today also were
trying to dig their way out
of garbage.
One of the reasons, dis-
closed today, was an un-
scheduled holiday taken
Friday by most of the san-
itation department.
Also to blame was a
scheduled holiday on
Christmas Day — and the
snow.
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Monday through Friday and
ask for "Action Line."
ages. Some of them still
were without power at
noon.
Ada, one of the hardest
hit, was reported getting
service restored after sev-
eral hours with half the
By Ivy Coffey
ADA — Many residents
of Ada were without heat,
water, lights and telephone
service today after a se-
vere ice storm glazed over
By Shorty Shelburne
A massive winter storm
unleashed all the frigid
forces of nature on Oklaho-
ma today, clamping a
stranglehold on the state
that almost isolated some
The probability of snow
was placed at 60 per cent
tonight and 70 per cent
Tuesday.
Rush hour traffic stalled
all over the city causing
traffic jams on major
streets as well as on many
of the lesser traveled
streets. A brisk wind piled
the snow into drifts in
many areas.
Many of the jams had
cleared by late morning
by Broadway, Reno, Dew-
ey and NW 6.
Police reported by short-
ly after 8 a.m. that there
were traffic tie-ups at icy
locations all over town.
There were a number of
“fender bender” acci-
dents, Maj. S. W. Ste-
phens, traffic chief, report-
ed, but none with injuries.
Stephens and traffic offi-
cer Bill Williams said
Reno west of May, where
■Mr*...
there was some drifting,
was clogged with traffic
shortly after 8 a.m.
At one point the N
Broadway extension was
reported jammed with
cars all the way from NW
36 to Britton Rd. and on
into Edmond with cars
moving slowly, stalled,
ditches and crossways
the road.
Cars were crossways
(See CITY—Page 2)
others had cross arms
ripped away by heavy ice.
Emergency crews were
called into the affected
areas from other places to
help speed repairs.
In Tulsa, gigantic traffic
snarls developed
cars failed to make
ice-coated hills.
Tulsa firemen
slowed by icy streets in
getting to a residence fire
in which two persons
burned to death. Their
identities were not imme-
diately available.
Numerous basketball
tournaments and other ac-
tivities, including one tour-
nament at Guthrie, had to
be cancelled due to dan-
gerous roads.
All highway patrol dis-
tricts in the state reported
hazardous driving condi-
tions and all were discour-
aging travel. Rain and ice
were falling in the south-
east, snow and ice covered
roads in the s t a t e’s
midsection and packed
snow with freezing drizzle
making it more hazardous
was reported in the north-
east.
The weather bureau is-
sued warnings that condi-
tions will get worse before
they get better over most
(See STATE—Page 2)
National guardsmen,
civil defense workers, util-
ity crews and other resi-
dents were busy this morn-
ing seeking to restore
service.
Regents Give
Rusk Approval
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) -
The appointment of former
secretary of state Dean
Rusk to the University of
Georgia faculty was ap-
proved today despite the
opposition of Gov. Lester
Maddox and some mem-
ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED 1969 OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING CO., 500 N BROADWAY
34 Pages—Oklahoma City, Monday, December 29, 1969
we do?”
city out. Pauls Valley,
Byars, Temple, Maysville,
Wynnewood, Washington,
McAlester, Muskogee,
Lawton, Holdenville, We-
woka and numerous other
towns had power problems
of varying lengths of time.
Power company crews
for OG&E, Public Service
Co. and many rural elec-
trip co-ops were out in full
force to try to restore
service as fast as possible.
Company officials said
they feared more outages
might come, however, as
precipitation continued.
Breaks in telephone lines
cut many towns off from
outside communications.
Southwestern Bell officials
reported that at one time
320 toll or long distance
circuits were out and that
a total of almost 800 sta-
tions or individual tele-
phones were dead across
the state.
The communications
blackout as lines snapped
under heavy ice was main-
ly in the south central part
of the state. Among towns
without service were Wal-
ters, Ryan, Waurika,
Healdton, Ringling, Coal-
gate, Roff, Tupelo, Kona-
wa, Wetumka, Weleetka,
Temple, Terral, Hastings,
Loco, Stringtown, Henne-
pin, Sulphur, Stuart, At-
wood, Chattanooga, Fitts-
town and Sasakwa.
More than 100 telephone
poles were reported down
in the state and numerous
State Towns Iced Down,
Page 20.
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Other <3111 232-3311 a»ents- _____
No one was hurt and Ag« (See AONUW—Page 2) -
n conuiKMiiucs. iney ten me i m nov eugiDte mtowb i
n live with my father. I’m not physically able to hold daws
Could the buses be put in to come to Midwest City *
and Del City at midnight? Mrs. D. D., Del City. • 1
They could, but only if there were enough regular .
riders paying fares to make the run break even. Folks at
the Central Oklahoma Parking and Transportation Au- ,
thority tell us that when a 26-mile round trip schedule
was operated to those cities for a couple of years, only
about one passenger rode for each four miles of non-rush
hour travel. It takes iy2 passengers per mile to stay out
continued cold through of red. But there may be hope: we learned Midwest
Tuesday. Overnight lows City and Del City officials have been asked to do what-
Amusements
Bridge
Business
By Mary Jo Nelson
Severs was found guilty
and given 99 years in pris-
on. The prosecutor said 10
members of the jury panel
voted to give Severs the
electric chair.
The girl’s testimony to-
day came in a hearing or-
dered by the State Court of
Criminal Appeals to deter-
mine whether an error
was made In Severs’ trial,
which ended in April, 1968,
The girl was not permit-
ted to testify until Dist.
Judge Charles L. Owens
sternly warned her that
what she was about to say
might result in her being
charged with perjury.
Judge Owens told the
girl a sworn statement she
already has given, in
which she said the rape
story was a fabrication, it-
self may prove that at one
point she had committed
perjury.
“One of the two has to
be a lie. Both cannot be
true,” Judge Owens told
the girl.
“The district attorney's
office is represented here
and they very well might
file perjury charges today.
I might direct them to do
so. Do you understand that
you might be arrested to-
day and put in the county
jail?” Owens said to the
girl.
She insisted on giving
Forrest Keene, city pub- the testimony. the and most ol Pont°- BV mid-morning, water
lie works director, dis- When asked bv Severs’ toc County. pressure had been re-
closed that only 76 of 284
sanitation workers showed
up for work Friday — a
scheduled work day for the
garbage crews with over-
time pay.
“I don’t know what hap-
pened,” Keene said. “They
just didn’t show.”
The city only ran 24 of
the 80 trucks which should
.have operated Friday,
Keene said, and as a result
was unable to make many
of the scheduled Friday ,
pickups. Corn,C!'
He said the development National Affairs
has been reported to Jack Dll Re ports
Easley, a s s i s t a n t city Our Wor,d Tod*y „
manager, but that so far Sport*....
aCt*°n Vital Statistics 17 through the air as Agnew’s
“What can we do?” Women’s News 8,9 car scurried into the U.S.
Keene said. “We can’t just
fire them. Then we’d just
Midnight Bus?
Maybe Later
What’s Inside 'Agnew’s Car
18, 17 v
stored but many
were still without
and heat.
Trees were still
ping under a heavy weight
of ice but Hayden Haynes,
city-county civil defense bers of the State Board of
director, said “We’re Regents,
cleaning up and unless
that new storm that's fore-
cast hits us, we’ll be
right.”
“This was the worst
storm I’ve seen in
years,” said Haynes.
National guardsmen,
civil defense workers, util-
ity crews and other resi-
dents worked this morning
* MANILA (AP) — Anti- new, asked later if he was
19 . . , , j ij tiectncai power lairure,
Classified Section 20-25 Ampncan demonstrators frightened, said: Not a caused by trees breaking
1g threw three firecrackers bit.” lines, affected about half Local: Snow, wind and
4 at vice President Spiro T. Earlier, the demonstra- of the city of 15,000 and J
17 Agnew s car here today fOrs attacked a limousine shut off the water pumps. . . ’ . —. o,,ar <«• mam
< and onp nt thorn hnunrod u tt c- * m lower 20’s. High Tues- ever they can to whomp up passenger interest in more
Ihp tnn nTThJZnn carrying U.S. Ambassador The civil defense set up (Details, frequent service out your way.
off the top of the hmou- Henry By r oade as he an emergency refuge for - * “ ' ’ -
sine. A rock also flew roiled up to the embassy, babies and elderly persons *age ‘‘‘i
Several hundred riot po- without heat in their
lice drove the crowd of homes The refuge was set
up at Knight Hall, a girls i»:g ml
dormitory, on the campus ir2 ££
of East Central State Col- I'Stm.
When asked by Severs’
attorney why she told such
a lie under oath, the girl ___
cried and said he had beat- # ft • 1 g f S ___
en her on occasion. “I J f’Q
didn’t think he’d go to the WltVl/O J. "uJ
(See GIRL—Page 2)
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 80, No. 268, Ed. 2 Monday, December 29, 1969, newspaper, December 29, 1969; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1708794/m1/1/?q=del+city: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.